Felt upper for shoes or slippers



(No Model.)

N. MOULTON,

FELT UPPER FOR SHOES OR SLIPPERS.

No. 275,250. Patented Apr. 3, 1883.

Fig. 2.

UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

NEWVLAND MOULTON, OF MERRIMAC, MASSACHUSETTS.

FELT UPPER FOR SHCES (3R SLiPPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,250, dated April 3, 1883,

Application filed August 7, 1882.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, NEWLAND MOULTON, of Merrimac, in the county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and uselul Improvement in Felt Uppers for Shoes or Slippers, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents a seamless upper for slippers, having an open bottom; Fig. 2, a similar kind of upper for a shoe.

This invention relates to improvements in felt shoes and slippers. As now made the upper and insole are formed in one piece, the only opening to the inside being at the anklehole, so thatit is like a completed article, only needing the outer solo. in an article thus made it is obvious that it is impracticable to effect an entrance within to line it, or to sew the same on a machine to ornament it.

The object of my invention is to produce an upper which shall be open at the bottom, to the edge of which the sole is to be secured.

The invention consists in a seamless upper of felt or felting material, open at the bottom, as hereinafter set forth.

(N0 model.)

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates the upper of a slipper, and B ofa shoe, both possessing the same peculiarities, only differing in shape.

It will be seen that this upper is seamless, in this respect like the uppers already known; but this upper is made without any bottom. It is open at the bottom, as shown at a, and has the edges a a, which are to be turned in, and to which the sole is to be secured.

An upper of this construction can be entered from the bottom and furnished with a lining; or it can be placed upon a machine and ornamented.

In this case no description of theprocess by which this upper is made is given, as the present invention relates entirely to the upper itself as a distinct article, and the process of making it will he the subject of another patent.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- As a new article oimanufacture, a seamless upper, of felt or felting material, properly felted and hardened, having an open bottom, as set forth.

NEWLAND MOULTON.

Witnesses:

0. A. SHAW, ALFRED Fawonr'r. 

